Illuminations - Final Outcomes

All in all I wasn't particularly happy with my final outcomes for the 'illuminations' brief. I got very bogged down with the development stage and ended up rushing to finish as I had to go home at the weekend before it was due in. The upshot of that was that although I did complete three finished illustrations, the 200mm by 200mm one wasn't thought out in much depth and was fairly weak I feel, and the other two I completed to twice the dimensions and didn't have time to scan them in to shrink them. I ended up photographing them at home and printing off the photographs which meant I had the actual illustrations twice as big as they should have been and then the images in the correct dimensions but not very good quality images. I also did not like the fact that what I ended up with was a load of inconsistencies; a mixture of images to big, actual original work, smaller printed off images all lumped together. 

This illustration I really wasn't happy with, it was rushed so the composition was not properly considered and I don't think it's clear that they are supposed to be toy soldiers. 

I really like the line work in this drawing and was pleased with how simple and expressive I managed to make the little girl, however, in the photo I used to make the image the right size the contrast is nowhere near as distinct as I would have liked and I managed to tinker with that a little in photoshop but didn't have the time to fully solve the problem.  

I actually really liked my scary Mary Poppins idea but feel like the final version didn't feel particularly final. It didn't differ too much from my initial drawings really and I would have liked to edit the photo a little to get the lighting a little more dramatic because i feel like as it is there isn't very much depth to the image.